Soya is on the rise as area nearly doubles this season

摘要

Tristan Baxter-Smith is part of an expanding group of farmers growing soya which has seen the crop's area nearly double this spring.Looking for a profitable break crop on his heavy Northamptonshire soils to replace the poor profitability of spring beans, he has tried a small area of soya for the first time.Attracted by the current strong soya price and the crop's relatively low inputs he has just drilling his crop into a good moist seed-bed in mid-May.